Keeping in mind that the food market increasingly demands for quality fruits and vegetables, it results extremely important its determination in industry. So it was considered the interest of the NIRS technology (which is non-destructive, simple and low cost) applied for orange (a fruit with a great economic impact) in order to establish certain crucial parameters in quality. It was achieved a hi ...
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Keeping in mind that the food market increasingly demands for quality fruits and vegetables, it results extremely important its determination in industry. So it was considered the interest of the NIRS technology (which is non-destructive, simple and low cost) applied for orange (a fruit with a great economic impact) in order to establish certain crucial parameters in quality. It was achieved a high predictive value for the determination of dry matter with a correlation of 0.915. Besides, for soluble solids and colour calibration models it was obtained acceptable models of calibration. The best predictive model was got to achieve the thickness of the cortex where the value of the correlation was 0.940. Although in the case of the acidity it could not be possible to generate a reliable model since every of its illustrative parameter of quality came of failure. [--]